{"id":180846,"date":"2022-06-23T10:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=180846"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:34:16","slug":"russia-ukraine-conflict-russian-troops-executed-photographer-in-ukraine-press-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=180846","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russian troops &#8216;executed&#8217; photographer in Ukraine, press group says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/s3fs-public\/styles\/article_img\/public\/image\/2022\/06\/23\/2022-06-22T195602Z1369788999RC2WTR984FQ5RTRMADP3UKRAINE-CRISIS-LEVIN_2.JPG?itok=Hub_0wKA\" alt=\"2022-06-22T195602Z1369788999RC2WTR984FQ5RTRMADP3UKRAINE-CRISIS-LEVIN.JPG\" title=\"2022-06-22T195602Z1369788999RC2WTR984FQ5RTRMADP3UKRAINE-CRISIS-LEVIN.JPG\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Ukrainian photographer Maksim Levin was &#8220;executed in cold blood&#8221; alongside his friend Oleksiy Chernyshov by Russian forces north of Kyiv on March 13, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a 16-page report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The evidence against the Russian forces is overwhelming,&#8221; the press freedom group said in an introduction to the report on its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia\u2019s defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1981, Levin was a documentary filmmaker and had occasionally contributed to Reuters coverage of the country since 2013. He went missing on March 13, the day RSF says he was executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Pullman, Reuters global managing editor for visuals, said of Levin in April: &#8220;His death is a huge loss to the world of journalism. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RSF said it examined evidence at the scene which included bullets and Levin&#8217;s burnt-out car, as well as photos taken of Levin and Chernyshov&#8217;s bodies when they were discovered on April 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report said the position of Chernyshov&#8217;s body and other evidence indicated he may have been burned alive and Levin was likely killed by one or two gunshots from close range. It said a photo of his corpse showed three visible bullet impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RSF gathered evidence from May 24 to June 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukrainian prosecutors say Levin was killed by two shots from small arms by members of Russia\u2019s armed forces. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Ukrainian photographer Maksim Levin was &#8220;executed in cold blood&#8221; alongside his friend Oleksiy Chernyshov by Russian forces north of Kyiv on March 13, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a 16-page report. &#8220;The evidence against the Russian forces is overwhelming,&#8221; the press freedom group said in an introduction to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180848,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180846\/revisions\/180848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}